Posts by Dib

On the right side, it just snapped off so there goes closing and opening the laptop. As if this thing hasn't fallen apart enough over the past two years. So can I get a replacement from any third parties? The warranty expired, and I...

Alright I disassembled that part of my 7700 tonight and believe I've found what you were talking about. Here's a photo for anybody else interested: So all you do is dismount your video card from the heat spreader. The video card...

Can anybody translate this into english? What is a carter supposed to mean? Maybe try taking some photos to illustrate what you're talking about.

What a shock. Now why would they take a product they used to hype as the greatest thing ever and discontinue it.. I really wish there were legal recourse for 7700 owners to force a recall to go with that discontinuation. AW owes a...

I've been having wireless problems too, I use a PCMCIA adapter and when I tried to get on the public wifi here recently I was unable to connect after several tries and attempting to troubleshoot it, so I've yet to figure out what's going...

Nevermind, took a desperate check through the cmos and noticed it had been inexplicably set to raid instead of ata. Great job Alienware! You excel in documentation as you do in designing laptops! Everything will be fine after...

Can the motherboard be updated with new drivers? I did get the BIOS and keyboard drivers updated, and after a bit of extra hassle have my 7700 up and running again.

One quick question then, I've been searching the forum but can't find any examples of using the floppy for flashing the BIOS. Do you have any links to an explanation? The part that is confusing me is the BIOS image contains only two...

Mostly I'm interesting in gauging the risks, it did recommend that all USB devices be unplugged although I wonder if that's just to cover themselves against all possible situations, or if the USB ports would actually be disconnected...

Is there any reason I shouldn't be able to extract said images to a flash media and boot from that? I know it's in the CMOS to allow booting from a usb flash drive, and I just don't have any blank media on hand right now and seriously...